In December the House of Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee released a report calling for significant changes in Canada’s nuclear weapons policies. The Committee’s recommendations address both the need to begin a real nuclear abolition process and the need to take immediate steps to reduce the danger of nuclear disaster.

The Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade released its long-awaited report on Canada’s nuclear non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament policy (Canada and the Nuclear Challenge: Reducing the Political Value of Nuclear Weapons for the Twenty-first Century) on 10 December 1998. The culmination of a two-year study, the Committee’s 126-page report contains 15 important recommendations for improving

In presenting the second case-study, on the situation in Central America, Viviana Arroyo said surveys showed that citizen security (or insecurity) ranked second only to the cost of living in a poll taken on perceived problems in this region. The problem embraced crime in the street and at home, kidnapping, car thefts, bank robberies – and anxiety about the role of police forces. Most people in Central America thought their governments had…

On May 27, 1999 Project Ploughshares appeared before the House of Common’s Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs as part of the Committee’s review of defence contracting and procurement. This paper consists of the brief submitted to the Committee and the proceedings that followed.

…Third Session of the Preparatory Committee 2010 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, May 8, 2009.

Statement by Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Department of State, “General Debate”, Third Session of the Preparatory Committee 2010 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, May 5, 2009.

Statement by Ambassador Marguerita Ragsdale, Director, Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs Department of State, “Specific Issue – Other provisions of the Treaty, including Article X”, Third Session of the Preparatory Committee 2010 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, May 11, 2009.

…element of the conference, eclipsing the NAM. The NWS would have to deal with the NAC.

8. NWS Negotiates With NAC

8.1 Main Committee I, dealing with the Article VI disarmament issues,* became the centre of attention. This committee was headed by Ambassador Camillo Reyes Rodriguez of Colombia, who had chaired the Third PrepCom and produced a 61-page final paper which, while not going as far as the NAM desired, went well beyond what the Western NWS would accept.

(*It is customary for NPT conferences to break into three main committees. Main Committee II, headed by Adam Kobieracki of Poland dealt principally with safeguards issues. Main Committee III, headed by Amb. Markku Reimaa of Finland dealt with the peaceful…

Statement by the Chinese Delegation on the Issue of Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference, New York, 7 May 2009.

Statement by the Chinese Delegation on the Issue of Security Assurances at the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 NPT Review Conference, New York, 7 May, 2009.

Statement by H.E. Mr. Cheng Jingye, Head of the Chinese Delegation at the Third Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, New York, 4 May, 2009.

…for the 2005 Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 2002 NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) 8 – 19 April 2002, New York.

Intervention by the United Kingdom in Cluster One As delivered by Ambassador David Broucher Head of Delegation. First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 12 April 2002. 2002 NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) 8 – 19 April 2002, New York.

Opening Statements, First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, April 9, 2005. United Kingdom: Ambassador Peter Jenkins. 2002 NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) 8 – 19 April 2002, New York.

Statement by the delegation of the Russian Federation at the second session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1116-08-05-2003.

2002 Statement by the delegation of the Russian Federation at the first session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. 2002 NPT Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) 8 – 19 April 2002, New York, April 8, 2002.

Statement of the delegation of the Russian Federation at the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the 2005 NPT Review Conference under Article VI of the Treaty (New York,…